Theme: Workers’ Health and Safety

How Universal Health Coverage Reaches the World’s Poorest: Community Health Workers

Pushpa Rathod’s work days are unpredictable. On any given day, she may be talking to adolescents about their health, counseling women working...

Towards Universal Health Coverage for Home-Based Workers in Southeast Asia

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has become a rallying call for the global health movement and is now officially encapsulated within the United...

StreetNet Interational: Organizing for Social Protection

This pamphlet showcases the work and goals of StreetNet International in helping street vendors gain social protection. It was produced with...

Bridges to Better Lives: SEWA’s Community Health Workers

October 7 is World Day for Decent Work with a focus this year on “investing in the care economy.” Whether providing preventative health information,...

Universal Health Coverage Workshop at ASEAN People’s Forum

• September 12, 2019 - 12:00pm
• Bangkok, Thailand

HomeNet Southeast Asia, in collaboration with regional advocacy platform SEA Junction and WIEGO, held a panel discussion on social protection...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

  July 2019  English  |  en Español |  en Français

Help Wanted: Abuses Against Female Domestic Workers in Indonesia and Malaysia

Is precarious employment more damaging to women’s health than men’s?

SEWA Project: Productivity Impact Study

SEWA has for a number of years been involved in the participatory design of work equipment prototypes for various sectors of the informal...

Pesticide Health and Safety Challenges Facing Informal Sector Workers: A Case of Small-scale Agricultural Workers in Tanzania

Abstract: The Tanzania informal sector is growing fast, with precarious working conditions and particular hazards for women and children...